In Shadow of Mordoryou take control of Powerful Manfoot, a stealthy stabman. In the much-lambasted tutorial of the game, you sneak up on your wife and give her a big smooch as your tutorial to a system that will be used for brutal murder for the next twenty hours.

In LEGO The Hobbit, a game I have been playing a level at a time for months now, there is a level where you have to run around and find a pig who has stolen some herbs that the dwarves need for some arcane, plot-based purpose. After some LEGO hijinks, you find the pig and engage in combat with it. Or, rather, the mechanics that you’re using are the combat mechanics: a prompt appears on screen, you smash the button for the prompt, and then you win the fight (normally by lopping off an enemy’s head).